Electric candle



\ lar part 41 connected along a crease line 42 with the main portion 35 and two overlapping tongue portions 43 hinged to the triangular portion 41 along the crease lines 44 and having another crease line 45 to enable the tongue portions to fold against the triangular portion 41. preferably on the inside to bring the tongue portions and the point of the triangular dportion into registry and in a plane perpen cular to the plane of the main top where a fastening means such as a staple or the equivalent is passed through at 45. The tongue portion 43 remote from the end of the diameter crease 36 is provided with a diagonal crease-line 46 which together with the hinge lines 47 between the tongue portions and the adjacent uncreased flange portions permits the inward collapse or folding of the lid. Each corner portion spaced and remote from the diameter line 36 has its tongue portions 43 both creased at 46 for the same purpose. Considering then that Fig. 4 shows the inside surface of the lid with the parts creased and assembled as above described, to fold or collapse the lid theflange portions are bent inward toward the inner surface of the panel 35 and the center diameter crease line 36 is elevated as shown in Fig. 11 and when the two halves of the panel 35 come together at their outer surfaces the flange portions-become substantially flat. In the final folded position the crease line 44 and the adjacent hinge line 47 come into close proximity at all angles except directly at the end of the crease line 36. In this instance the line 47 assumes an angle and so is flared from the hinge line 44 and also from the line 36. In opening the lid for application to the box. the operator simply flattens it and opens out the flange portions so that they all stand perpendicular to the main panel 35. The lid is then applied to the box in the ordinary way and the box and lid co-operate with each other for holding the devices in proper carrying position or form. Furthermore, the flange portion of the lid overlapping the tongue portions of the flaps 19' serves not only to obscure the tongue ends of the flaps, but to prevent positively any accidental removal or disconnection of the tongues from the slots 29.

Tie members shown as cords 48 may be employed to hold the lid upon the box and for carrying purposes. These cords are shown as provided with knots on the inside of'the box whence the cords are threaded outward through holes 49 in the side walls 17. As practised most successfully, one cord'is longer than the other and when they are brought into crossed relation across the top of the box the longer cord is passed thence downward around one end across the bottom and thence upward along the other, and finally tied to the shorter cord as shown in Fig. 1. This application of the cord further re-enforces the construction of the flap portions of the end walls of the box as we l as binding all the parts of the box together.

I claim:

1. The herein described collapsible box comprising a bottom and side wall rtions united to one another, the bottom eing of polygonal form, the side walls including two members hinged directly to the bottom, and other two members of com osite nature each including a flap hinged directly to the bottom and swingable from one side of the lane of the bottom in one condition of the .ox, pastthe plane of the bottom, and into a position at an angle to the planeaforesaid in another condition of the box, said bottom being foldable upward along its longitudinal center when the box is colla sod and the flaps being at such time fold between the two parts of the bottom.

2. The herein described hat box comprising an upwardly-foldable bottom and side wall portions hinged to one another so as to occu y different relative dpositions as to whet er the box 18 collapse or set up, some of said side walls bein united, directly to edges of the bottom, ot ers bein united to the bottom through foldable we portions, and other of the side walls being of composite nature each including a air of wall sections hingedrespectiveiy to t e two walls on opposite sides thereof and a flap hinged to the bottom and adapted to occu y a position against the lower surface of t e bottom and to stand erect in interlocking osition with the aforesaid wall sections, said fla s having means for attaching them to t e other sections of the same walls when the box is set up to secure the permanency of the box, and being foldable upward between the folds of the bottom when the box is collapsed.

3. The herein described collapsible box comprising a polygonal bottom, a plurality of side walls, and means for hinging the side walls to the bottom, said hinging means including a plurality of triangular web members each having two portions, one portion being integral with a side wall, while the other portion is integral with the bottom, said portions being of right triangular form united to each other along their hypothe- April 5,1927. F. N. Boss ELECTRIC CANDLE Filed April 11. 1925 INVENTOR.

A TTORNEY 

